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1•gogo61•51s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Paper Arena – A social trading feed where only AI agents can post

https://paperinvest.io/arena
1•andrenorman•2m ago•0 comments

TOSTracker – The AI Training Asymmetry

https://tostracker.app/analysis/ai-training
1•tldrthelaw•6m ago•0 comments

The Devil Inside GitHub

https://blog.melashri.net/micro/github-devil/
2•elashri•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Distill – Migrate LLM agents from expensive to cheap models

https://github.com/ricardomoratomateos/distill
1•ricardomorato•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sigma Runtime – Maintaining 100% Fact Integrity over 120 LLM Cycles

https://github.com/sigmastratum/documentation/tree/main/sigma-runtime/SR-053
1•teugent•7m ago•0 comments

Make a local open-source AI chatbot with access to Fedora documentation

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-make-a-local-open-source-ai-chatbot-who-has-access-to-fedora-do...
1•jadedtuna•8m ago•0 comments

Introduce the Vouch/Denouncement Contribution Model by Mitchellh

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10559
1•samtrack2019•8m ago•0 comments

Software Factories and the Agentic Moment

https://factory.strongdm.ai/
1•mellosouls•9m ago•1 comments

The Neuroscience Behind Nutrition for Developers and Founders

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=797
1•01-_-•9m ago•0 comments

Bang bang he murdered math {the musical } (2024)

https://taylor.town/bang-bang
1•surprisetalk•9m ago•0 comments

A Night Without the Nerds – Claude Opus 4.6, Field-Tested

https://konfuzio.com/en/a-night-without-the-nerds-claude-opus-4-6-in-the-field-test/
1•konfuzio•11m ago•0 comments

Could ionospheric disturbances influence earthquakes?

https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2026-02-06-0
2•geox•13m ago•1 comments

SpaceX's next astronaut launch for NASA is officially on for Feb. 11 as FAA clea

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacexs-next-astronaut-launch-for-nas...
1•bookmtn•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: One-click AI employee with its own cloud desktop

https://cloudbot-ai.com
2•fainir•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Poddley – Search podcasts by who's speaking

https://poddley.com
1•onesandofgrain•17m ago•0 comments

Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•19m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
2•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
3•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
2•Brajeshwar•24m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•27m ago•1 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•31m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•31m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
3•vinhnx•32m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•37m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•42m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•46m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•47m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•48m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Perplexity Comet

https://comet.perplexity.ai/?a=b
43•birriel•7mo ago

Comments

bachittle•7mo ago
AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
Spartan-S63•7mo ago
I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!
samrus•7mo ago
anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
xnx•7mo ago
I thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413
sea-gold•7mo ago
Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/

aitacobell•7mo ago
Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
poisonborz•7mo ago
Don't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.
aitacobell•7mo ago
Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google
xnx•7mo ago
> light a fire under Google

Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering?

I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.

aitacobell•7mo ago
Yeah I do, but more for its bloat and the erosion of search quality.
_boffin_•7mo ago
What do you think this browser will be built on-top of?
pram•7mo ago
Yeah the problem with Chrome is it doesn't have enough AI shit crammed into it.
dustyharddrive•7mo ago
Arc has been abandoned.
lofaszvanitt•7mo ago
Nobody seen that coming
aitacobell•7mo ago
Interesting, it has? The hype has died out but I see it in the wild
dustyharddrive•7mo ago
They pivoted to "AI": https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
pjm331•7mo ago
a landing page about a new browser and then...

> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.

a bunch of facts about planets?

i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

reaperducer•7mo ago
i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.

Finally, some truth in marketing!

samrus•7mo ago
is this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible?

you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit

xnx•7mo ago
The later
kveykva•7mo ago
The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
qntmfred•7mo ago
and it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.
hexomancer•7mo ago
Yeah, I can’t believe this is a serious website made by a multi million dollar company. It looks like something I would have designed when I was 10.
wy35•7mo ago
Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.
xnx•7mo ago
A "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.
woadwarrior01•7mo ago
IMO, we're back to the late 90s when every kid (I was one of them) would slap the IE ActiveX control onto a VB6 form and call it a browser.
kurtoid•7mo ago
Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius
lousken•7mo ago
is that the spyware browser?
pelagicAustral•7mo ago
Is there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!
fsflover•7mo ago
IceCat.
mmh0000•7mo ago
Firefox + arkenfox (https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js)

Ungoogled Chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Tor Browser (https://www.torproject.org/download/)

rylan-talerico•7mo ago
Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.

Alifatisk•7mo ago
As far as I know, Dia have a waiting list atm?
woadwarrior01•7mo ago
Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?
seatac76•7mo ago
OpenAI Reaponse: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-releas...
sea-gold•7mo ago
> OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
Alifatisk•7mo ago
Isn't Perplexitys Comet also built ontop of Chromium?
lofaszvanitt•7mo ago
oh, it will be groundbreaking.... eeeeeeee nooooo.
sea-gold•7mo ago
I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.

[1] https://ladybird.org

lofaszvanitt•7mo ago
It's time to wreak havoc on the back orifice of existing solutions.
ageitgey•7mo ago
It's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.
daft_pink•7mo ago
Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?
pjm331•7mo ago
this is a much better page about it imo https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
andrewinardeer•7mo ago
Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
pjm331•7mo ago
correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan
pona-a•7mo ago
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.

Alifatisk•7mo ago
This page was better https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
bicepjai•7mo ago
I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
senectus1•7mo ago
yeah I explicitly do not want my searches "tailored" to me. I want factual results that I can explore and pick holes in.

I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.

patrickscoleman•7mo ago
You should check out kagi then

http://kagi.com/

bicepjai•7mo ago
The next service I will give my money is going to be Kagi since they seem to tick all the right boxes (for now) :)
snorrah•7mo ago
What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?
brador•7mo ago
Holds up a mirror to the uselessness of modern human existence.

What are we doing here?

Automated trekking bag purchasing.

Alifatisk•7mo ago
This https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted should be the home page, the current homepage should be somewhere else, you want to quickly introduce the app / service and answer the visitors first question, "what is this?"

Instead the home page hijacked my scrollbar and walked me through Perplexitys core values, principles and then introduced the whole planetary system before ending up in a FAQ!? Wth

Team Perplexity, you can do better than this, your business is all about distilling fluff into concrete answers, your website should portray the same message, this does not

alwillis•7mo ago
I've been using Dia for about a month. Dia is made by The Browser Company of New York, best known for the Arc browser [1].

Dia is a fabulous piece of work--it's much more than Chrome + a chatbot.

You can tell they thought deeply what would it mean for AI to be integrated into a browser, not just tacked on.

It's still in beta, but even at this stage, it's quite polished.

The custom skills are a killer feature. You'll wonder why every browser doesn't have it [2][3].

[1]: https://www.diabrowser.com

[2]: https://www.caneraras.com/learn/browser-skills-gallery

[3]: "Dia Browser Review in 120 seconds: The AI-First Browser Reimagining Web Interaction" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijHiDCU4zc